South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has handed over a new 180,000-cbm LNG carrier to Denmark’s Celsius Tankers, a unit of Celsius Shipping.
Celsius Tech, a joint venture of Celsius Shipping and Hong Kong-based Fleet Management, said on Monday via social media the new vessel is Celsius Granada.
The JV will manage this LNG carrier, such as the previous newbuild Celsius Greenwhich and other Celsius vessels.
Celsius Tech said this marks its tenth vessel since the project began in 2019.
In addition, this is the sixth Celsius vessel of ten on order at Samsung Heavy.
It features a MAN ME-GA engine and GTT’s Mark III Flex containment tech.
The first newbuild in this batch, Celsius Geneva, was named in July 2023.
According to its website, Celsius will take delivery of the four remaining newbuilds during 2025-2026.
20 LNG carriers
VesselsValue data shows the LNG carrier Celsius Granada will serve a long-term charter deal with UK-based energy giant BP.
The data previously showed that BP also chartered Celsius Greenwich.
On the other hand, Clearlake Shipping, a subsidiary of energy trader Gunvor, has taken on charter Celsius Glarus, Celsius Geneva, Celsius Giza, and Celsius Gandhinagar.
Back in October 2021, the Danish firm signed long-term charter deals for four LNG carriers with Clearlake Shipping.
In addition to these charters, Celsius Tankers, also signed long-term charter deals for four more newbuild LNG carriers with Clearlake Shipping.
China Merchants Heavy Industry in Jiangsu will build these vessels and deliver them in 2026 and 2027.
On top of this, Celsius also said in October last year it will book two more LNG carriers at the Chinese shipbuilder and added four more optional vessels.
Shipbuilding sources previously told LNG Prime the construction deal for the second firm vessel in this batch and sixth in the CMHI series had not been signed yet.
However, the shipbuilding deal is expected to be finalized by the end of this year.
Following deliveries of all of these ships, the Danish firm will have 20 LNG carriers in its fleet.
This includes four 180,000-cbm vessels delivered in 2020 and 2021.